Director of Engineering - Compute Cloud

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About the Role:

As the Director of Engineering - Cloud Compute, you will play a pivotal role in building our foundational IaaS offerings and accelerate the development of our carbon-reducing, AI focused cloud platform. Leveraging your extensive experience in cloud computing, you will lead complex engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable cloud compute solutions. Our customers include rapidly growing AI companies and enterprise AI teams who use our high performance GPU compute products with VPC and cluster networking technology. We’re now adding broad new compute and virtualization capabilities to meet the needs of our growing customer base.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Serve as a team lead for cloud compute engineering at Crusoe Cloud, collaborating with leadership to define and implement the long-term road map and strategy for the team

• Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks

• Scale the team, including managing engineer onboarding, growing or hiring managers, and implementing team and org processes.

• Stay aware of the latest trends and techniques in cloud software, incorporating these insights to maintain Crusoe’s market-leading offerings

• Drive the hiring process to attract top talent, and implement strategies to retain and develop these professionals

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• 7+ years of engineering management experience, 10+ years of experience working in software engineering

• In-depth understanding of Compute products (CPU, GPU, ASIC accelerators) and how customers consume them

• Understanding of key hypervisors and virtualization technologies (eg KVM, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V) and how they enable cloud computing.

• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and how they drive compute requirements for the cloud data center.

• Proven experience in building and maintaining scalable and highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Bonus Points

• Proven track record of operating production infrastructure to strict SLOs and SLAs, leveraging fleet-wide observability and monitoring to drive reliability, optimization, and capacity planning

• Deep expertise in Linux environments, configuration management, and modern deployment automation to ensure safe, scalable rollouts across large-scale compute fleets

• Demonstrated leadership in ambiguous, fast-moving environments,bringing structure, clarity, and cross-functional alignment during periods of rapid organizational growth

• Active open-source or upstream contributions to cloud infrastructure, containerization, or virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, QEMU, containerd, Kubernetes)

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity packages

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

• Employer contributions to HSA account

• Paid parental leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Professional development & tuition reimbursement

• Mental health & wellness support

• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

• Cell phone stipend

• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

• Volunteer time off

• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

• Daily meals allowance

• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $285,000 - 335,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.